Silver Ferns to take on mixed team

Netball: The Silver Ferns will meet a New Zealand A team along with the country’s best men’s and mixed netball teams as part of their final preparations for this year’s Commonwealth Games.

The fourday Cadbury Netball Series will pit the Silver Ferns, Aotearoa Men, New Zealand A and — in a world first — an invitational mixed team against each other at Pulman Arena in Auckland on July 1316.

The series will be the only official hitout for the Silver Ferns before they head to Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games from July 28 to August 8.